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What is Lead in Minecraft?

A Lead, also known as a leash, is a very useful item in Minecraft for managing and transporting mobs. It is a rope that you can use to tie a mob to a fence post or to lead it around with you. This is incredibly helpful when you want to move animals like cows, sheep, or horses from one place to another without them wandering off. Instead of trying to lure them with food, you can simply put them on a Lead and walk them to their new home. You can lead multiple animals at once, making it much easier to start a farm or move your livestock. A Lead can be used on most passive and neutral mobs, making it an essential tool for any farmer or animal lover in Minecraft.

How to get Lead in Minecraft

There are two main ways to get a Lead. The first is by crafting it. The recipe for a Lead requires four pieces of string and one slimeball. You can get string by defeating spiders or breaking cobwebs, and you can get a slimeball by defeating slimes in swamp biomes or in special "slime chunks" underground. On a crafting table, place the slimeball in the center, and arrange the string in a shape that leaves the top right and bottom right corners empty. This recipe will give you two Leads. The second way to get a Lead is from a Wandering Trader. These special traders will spawn randomly near you, and they are always accompanied by two leashed trader llamas. You can either kill the trader to get the leads, or you can simply break the lead connecting the llamas to get them without any conflict.

How to use Lead in Minecraft

To use a Lead, hold it in your hand and right click on a mob that can be leashed, such as a cow, pig, sheep, horse, or even a wolf. A rope will appear connecting you to the mob. You can now walk around, and the mob will follow you. If you get too far away from the mob, the Lead will break, so stay relatively close. To tie the mob to a fence post, right click on the fence post while you are leading the mob. The mob will now be tethered to the fence and will not be able to wander far. To release the mob, simply right click on it again (or on the knot on the fence post). You can also use a Lead to hang mobs from a ceiling for decoration, or to pull a boat if you are leading a mob while riding in one.

How to craft Lead in Minecraft

Crafting Table

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What can Lead make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

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That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

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Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

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Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

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